"You're kinder."
Tao Zhu was originally holding Li Qiao's arm. After saying these words, he directly hugged Li Qiao's waist and rested his cheek on Li Qiao's shoulder.
This man is the kindest.
It’s also the most generous.
Not only did he lead the people in the county to become rich, he also built roads for the whole county.
The Han family's caravan returned to Beijing two days ago and brought back the latest situation in Pingcheng.
When Zhuang Fengsheng butcher Zheng and his party returned to Pingcheng this spring, they first went to the magistrate of Pingcheng and told the magistrate about Li Qiao's plan to build a road in Pingcheng.
Li Qiao paid for this, Sheng Hong agreed, and the magistrate of Pingcheng naturally supported it strongly.
The magistrate of Pingcheng County quickly summoned the village chiefs of the county to announce the matter.
After the news was announced, the people in Pingcheng were very happy. Mr. Li was in Shengjing, but he cared about his hometown. Mr. Li was a good official!
Pingcheng's merchants and petty officials were happy and approached Zhuang Fengshou, saying that they wanted to contribute to Pingcheng's road conditions.
It's not just the Li family who are walking this road, the whole Pingcheng people are walking this road, they are also walking, they have made a fortune in Pingcheng, and they want to give back to Pingcheng.
Especially shopkeeper Wang, after approaching Zhuang Fengshou, he repeatedly begged Zhuang Fengshou to accept his silver, otherwise he would feel uneasy.
Of all the merchants in Pingcheng, he benefited the most from Mr. Li, and he benefited the most from the people of Pingcheng. If he didn't donate money, he would have no conscience, and he would be a wolf.
Shopkeeper Wang spoke sincerely and shed tears. Zhuang Fengshou thought about the actual situation and accepted the fifty thousand taels of silver donated by shopkeeper Wang.
Shopkeeper Wang's Wangyue Tower business is still booming. Shopkeeper Wang has really made a lot of money in the past few years, so he only sells 50,000 taels.
Shopkeeper Wang's donation was successful, and other merchants and petty officials followed suit.
When it comes to taking advantage of the situation, everyone has benefited from Mr. Li. If Village Chief Zhuang refuses to accept their money, then they really have no face to face the elders in their hometown.
For example, every year Shopkeeper Wang distributes pairs of cards. How many people get rich by selling the cards to big businessmen from other places. Now we have to build roads. If we don't donate some money, we will really feel bad.
There is also Shopkeeper Zhao from Zuixianju. He had offended Li Qiao because of the grilled sausages and green dumplings, and now he really wanted to make amends.
Moreover, because there are so many people in Pingcheng, Zuixianju's business has been good in recent years.
Shopkeeper Zhao can be regarded as being favored by Mr. Li, and he especially wants to do his best.
Zhuang Fengshou thought about the actual situation and accepted the money donated by these people.
Isn't that right? How many people have become rich by relying on a vermicelli.
This is true for merchants and petty officials, and it is also true for Sanliu Village.
As Mr. Li's root, he must set an example for the whole county, and he must not hold Mr. Li back.
Now Mr. Li wants to build roads, and Sanliu Village not only needs people, but also money.
This bank must have a good harvest, otherwise Mr. Li wants to draw a clear line with the whole village.
Zhuang Fengshou took it for granted that everyone could stand by and watch this road construction, except Sanliu Village.
Sanliu Village must do its best to support this road construction!
But Mr. Li definitely didn't want everyone to pay more, so each family just donated twenty taels of silver.
Zhujiacun nearby saw this and quickly followed.
Zhujiacun has always advanced and retreated together with Sanliu Village, so Zhujiacun also has to donate money!
The surrounding villages, such as Dahe Village and Xiaogang Village, also donated money when they saw this. They were familiar with this matter. Many people donated money when the adobe brick road was built before. Li Qiao had not yet become an official.
Now that Li Qiao is a third-rank official close to the emperor, this money has to be donated even more.
People from the surrounding villages wanted to donate, and soon, the people in Pingcheng also wanted to donate.
We can't fall behind. Everyone's life has indeed become rich these years, and they are doing things for Mr. Li.
In response, Zhuang Fengshou shook his head and refused.
He only accepted donations from people in Sanli Town, not from other towns, lest some people who didn't want to donate were forced to donate and would resent Li Qiao.
If I really want to do something to build the road, I can just go and help build the road after the construction starts.
By the way, he brought his own plant ash. Plant ash is needed to make plaster. Now Mr. Li is spending his own money to build roads in Pingcheng. He can't let Mr. Li pay for the plant ash.
When businessmen from other places heard about this, they also wanted to donate money so that they could get on Li Qiao's line.
These merchants all knew about Li Qiao's temperament, and it would be difficult to engage in side schemes in front of Li Qiao. However, if they were being bullied while doing serious business, it would definitely be easier to turn to Li Qiao.
Therefore, they wanted to increase their sense of existence by donating money, so as not to encounter injustice in the future, and they would not even be qualified to see Li Qiao.
The money of these people was not harvested by Zhuang Fengsheng. With local donations and Li Qiao's money, it was enough to build the entire county's roads.
Zhuang Fengshou took the money, and with the strong support of the Pingcheng magistrate, he quickly built a plaster road.
Although the adobe brick road is good, it is easily damaged, especially since vermicelli is often transported on this road.
The damaged areas were quickly repaired, but repairing them all was not an option. Now there was mortar, so the first road Zhuang Fengshou built was an adobe brick road.
He put a layer of plaster on the adobe brick path.
The plaster dries quickly, and the road only needs to be closed for three days to be passable.
Many people pass by this road every day. After it passes, people come to watch it. This is Mr. Li's newly invented plaster. The whole Shengjing is using this plaster to build roads.
After everyone observed it on the spot, they admired Li Qiao even more. It was indeed Mr. Li who invented it, it is flat!
Just solid!
It’s just easy to go!
This plaster road was the best advertisement. People in the county were enthusiastic about building roads. Businessmen from other places were very envious. If the official roads in Dasheng were all plaster roads like this, then they would be able to do business in the future. It’s so convenient!
The Ming Prefecture immediately gave Sheng Hong a discount, saying that he wanted to arrange for plaster roads to be built in the remaining four counties of Hexi Prefecture.
Ming Zhifu now travels around the five counties several times every year to ensure the stability of the vermicelli business. In order to facilitate the transportation of vermicelli and his travel, the remaining four counties of Hexi Prefecture must build plaster roads.
When Ming Zhifu built the adobe road between Pingcheng and Fucheng before, he forced the rich people in Fucheng to donate a lot of money. This time he planned to follow the example of last time and collect donations from the rich people in the remaining four counties.
Rich people should spend more money!
Sheng Hong greatly appreciated Magistrate Ming's behavior.
Sheng Hong liked this kind of official who saved money for the treasury.
Sheng Hong waved his hand and it was done.
Therefore, when the Han family's caravan returned to Beijing with the first batch of vermicelli this year, a quarter of the plaster road in Pingcheng had been built, and the plaster road in Fucheng had just begun.
At this rate, by this time next year, the five counties in Hexi Prefecture will be covered with plaster roads.
This was something Tao Zhu didn't expect.
What was unexpected was that Li Qiao learned about this and donated 80,000 taels of silver to the remaining four counties, 20,000 taels to each county.
When it comes to kindness, there is no one more kind than this person in the world.
Tao Zhu's thoughts wandered too far, and Li Qiao didn't know it. He smiled and hugged Tao Zhu tightly: "The two of us are kind-hearted, and we should get married. After we go home, I will clean up with you. Old cotton clothes and bedding.”
"good."
Tao Zhu responded with a smile.
When the couple returned home, it was already dark. It was cloudy today and the temperature was around freezing.
It gets dark early, so dinner is eaten early.
Li Dashan, Li Ershan, Zhao Shen, and Li Shu all went to the shop every day and did not eat with the others.
In the past two days, Li Liang Wang Guihua was busy with the autumn harvest, and the couple temporarily lived at Zhuangzi instead of at home.
Therefore, Li Qiao Taozhu usually eats dinner with a group of juniors.
At the dinner table, Li Qiao announced that the court would set up a charity hall and called on everyone to donate unused clothes.
"I have kept all Xiao Rui's old clothes. Originally, I planned to wear them for Erbao, but now that Uncle Zhu has become the deputy general manager of the shantang, my family must strongly support me. I will donate all Xiao Rui's old clothes. go out."
Zheng Qianqian responded immediately.
"It's okay. We just need to donate the clothes we don't need. If you do, don't donate. Quan Shengjing is not just our family."
Li Qiao said.
His family all came from the countryside. Although they are rich now, frugality is engraved in everyone's bones.
The clothes Li Xiaorui had worn since childhood were all silk and satin. Zheng Qianqian was reluctant to throw them away and planned to wear them for Li Erbao. This was normal.
But other wealthy families would never treat their young master like this.
In a wealthy family, even the maids and servants have to make two new sets of clothes every quarter, let alone the girls and gentlemen.
I know that this young marquis has eighteen sets of new clothes every quarter. This is because his family is relatively frugal and does not like extravagance. For someone with a lot of ostentation, for example, dandies like Lu Wenrong and Peng Zhiye have to have 18 sets of new clothes every quarter. Thirty or forty new sets of clothes.
When the imperial court ransacked the Lu family and Peng family, the clothes they found were piled up in piles. Sheng Hong sold everything he could, and the rest was collected into the treasury.
Today, Sheng Hong also said that he would open the warehouse, go through these clothes, find the winter clothes and take them to the shrine.
"That's right, Brother Qian, you can keep it for Erbao. We donate five hundred taels of silver and five hundred catties of grain every month, which is enough."
Tao Zhu also said.
"Isn't it really necessary?" Zheng Qianqian opened her eyes wide and hesitated.
"No need. Shantang Shantang, the word "good", depends entirely on your heart and cannot be forced. If you force it, it will change the taste."
Li Qiao didn't like taking money from other people's pockets to force donations, but the weather was freezing and natural disasters were coming. Under such circumstances, he alone and the still somewhat empty treasury couldn't handle it.
A charity hall must be set up so that the whole Dasheng can tide over the difficulties together.
But even so, he still advocates no force and everything should be done freely and voluntarily.
Forced donations will cause resentment and cannot turn a good thing into a bad thing.
After hearing Li Qiao's explanation, Zheng Qianqian no longer hesitated: "Then I'll donate the clothes I'm tired of wearing."
"I have a lot of old clothes, so I'll donate them all."
Li Yuan swallowed the rice ball in his mouth and spoke.
He is growing taller every year, and the clothes he used to wear can no longer be worn. In this case, it is better to donate them.
